Miriam Toews will read on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of Swing Low: A life, A Boy of Good Breeding, Summer of My Amazing Luck, and A Complicated Kindness, an outstanding Canadian bestseller. Among her many honours are a Governor General's Award, a National Magazine Award for Humour, and a Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. She won the 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans. Her most recent work is the critically acclaimed Irma Voth.

Of her writing, Maclean's says, "Toews' ability to generate comedy and heartache at the same time just soars."

The readings are free and open to the public.